With his 14 Grand Slam wins (a record at his retirement in 2002), Pete Sampras is still 4th in the list of all-time winners. And he will probably stay there for a while as the most any currently active players …
July 12th is the birthday of Michael Ventris, the man who shocked the world in the 1950’s when he announced that he had deciphered Linear B, the ancient Mycenaean Greek alphabet that nobody had been able to decipher until then …
Westworld season 4 just came out on HBO Max. For those who don’t know, this show is HBO’s follow-up to Game of Thrones. Westworld is a pretty confusing show if you don’t follow carefully, starting in one direction amd eventually …
June 7th is National Oklahoma Day, which is an appropriate day to remember Columbia, America’s forgotten Goddess. That’s because Oklahoma is the only US State that features Columbia on their State Seal. While many US States features Greek Gods on …
A few days ago the Biographers International Organization awarded the 2022 Plutarch Award to Burning Man: The Trials of D.H. Lawrence. Named after the Father of Biography, the Plutarch Award is awarded every year to the best biography of the …
The Batman is now available streaming online on HBO Max & other services such as Apple TV and more. The highest grossing movie of 2022 so far, The Batman is one of the oldest DC Comics characters, and as most …
To celebrate Jules Verne’s birthday on Feb. 8, lets take a look at some of his stories and what makes him so special in the history of Science-Fiction. Jules Verne (1828-1905) was a French writer who is widely regarded as …
On National Science-Fiction Day we remember Lucian of Samosata, considered by many the Father of Science-Fiction. Lucian of Samosata was an author from the 2nd century CE who wrote what some people today call Proto-Science-Fiction, an early version of what …
How Greek Mythology and Philosophy Influenced the Matrix Series The Matrix series, created by the Wachowskis, is one of the most influential and popular science fiction franchises of all time. The movies explore the themes of reality, freedom, choice, fate, …
Although The Expanse is not directly based on Greek mythology, the show has so many references to Greek mythology (particularly in the naming of the planets featured in the show) that it is worth mentioning in this blog. With Season …